Thanks for your advice. I've only worked with OpenVPN, but I'll do some
more research on IPSec.

Good thing the hardware that I most like to use for pfSense deployments has
an Intel Atom processor that does support AES (
http://ark.intel.com/products/77988/Intel-Atom-Processor-C2758-4M-Cache-2_40-GHz).
:)

On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 8:05 AM, Vick Khera <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 6:31 AM, David White <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I didn't think I would have to setup a new server / port for each remote
> > office. I thought that, with the SSL/TLS setup, I could have a single
> > server and configure it so that clients can see & interact with each
> other.
> >
>
> When you configure the OpenVPN server side, you need to specify the remote
> IP network. How will you do that for 20 different remote sites with one
> server config?
>
> The IPSec config will be much cleaner, I think, and much lower overhead.
>
> With either case, make sure you have hardware crypto support (usually that
> means AES-NI feature in your CPU) and choose the ciphers that are supported
> by it, specifically AES128 (or AES256) with SHA. The clients could probably
> get away without the hardware acceleration, but if you are pushing lots of
> traffic through the hub then you will need it.
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